Privacy Policy...

Collection and Use of Information

Casual Browsers

We log IP addresses, browser types, referring sites and page hits but we do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. We use this information to analyze trends, track your session, and gather broad demographic information for future use. This will allow us to continually improve the material found on CooksCompass.com.

Personal Information

In order to provide a more customized experience to visitors of CooksCompass.com, we ask that you create an account with us. To do so, we ask that you provide us with Personal Information. This includes information such as an individual's name and e-mail address, as well demographic information, such as date of birth, gender, geographic area (your zip code) and tastes & preferences (your favorite foods or recipes).

The information you provide during registration may be used for some or all of the following:

to provide services you have requested to create a more complete user experience;

to contact you from time to time (a) for internal marketing, informational, or promotional purposes; or (b) for any other lawful purpose related to your use of the Website.Furthermore, your registration information may be used in conjunction with other information that you submit to us:

to contact you regarding content you have submitted to us (e.g., to ask you a question about a submitted recipe);

for editorial purposes (e.g., so that we can attribute your submitted recipe or posting to you); and

so “Your Profile” may be publicly viewed (if you elect to make it public) so that others may see if they have similar culinary tastes to you.

Email-a-Friend

We would like you to be able to tell a friend about us whenever we have been of help to you. When you choose to email a recipe or other content to a friend, we ask that you provide your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email on your behalf which contains the recipe or other content, and which invites your friend to visit the Website. CooksCompass.com will not share their information with advertisers or partners.

Cookies

We use cookies on CooksCompass.com to, among other things, remember your password so that you do not have re-enter it every time you visit and to allow us to provide you with a more customized experience. We also use cookies to gather broad demographic information and general usage patterns about you and other users of our Website to share with third-party advertisers so that we may offer you more specific and useful ads.

Third-Party Advertisers

In the course of placing advertisements on CooksCompass.com, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

Disclosure of Personal Information

CooksCompass.com will not sell, rent or share personal information with third parties without your prior consent except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy.

Your Consent

By using CooksCompass.com, you agree to our collection and use of this information. If any changes are made to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted on this page so that you can always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may share this information. We retain the right to change these policies at any time.